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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright 1928. MIKE TAKB8 VP GOLF Hat rock, a. C? Julie 22, 1932 <jeer ?nr. editor: julle smith -who returned back from college a few weeks ago has just finished u nice *0** link in his pa's pastor and he asked me to plese be kind enough to say something about same as it is now ready to be (played AH ' **V on. - ** .. julio seems to have took a goff course in collodgo and he likes it v and says it is a great game for tired bizness men, but we have noi\e now, unless they get tired waiting on bizness to open up ansoforth. julie seems to know his onions in laying off a goff link, and he calls it "the green" for short/he kept on talking about traps, but all i.saw enroute was 3 rabbit gums. * i told julio that i would boost his link in my collum if ho would t^ech me how to play and he said all rftfht. his link has 9 holes in it and 4 level flatforms to knock the balls from when you start off. he has a flag pole at the hole down in the back of the pastor. v . * 1 r julie teoched me one round today, he showed me how to ketch my caddy up close to the end and bend my little finger over the other little finger, he showed me how to build the little ant-hole" to tea my ball off from, he explained that r should not grip by caddy too light and told me not to use my iron driver caddy unless i had a long shoot to make. he furnished the ball finder for me and he told me to hit the hall hard so's it would go over the hazzard (meaning our swimming pool) and he fixed my feet kinder plgeon->toed. and told me to hold them that-a-way1 every time i tead off from taw, or the home base, i think i will like goff as i am a tired bizness man myself and the only one in flat rock, i will rite or foam you again about our goff link as soon as we take in some monney. youres trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. PLANKS & PLANKS ..It might save a great deal of lumber if the democrats and the repub licans would use the same planks in their "flatforms." This is "no time to waste our natural resources. All other kinds of resources have already been wasted. ..I have figgered up some specifications for the necessary "flatfdrm" planks to be used by both parties this year, as follows: a w et plank... .This"should be a plank about 10 feet long, 6 inches wide, thick at both ends and thin in the middle. (N. B. The reason it should be thin in the middle is to keep the politicians from see-sawing with it). The dampness should be confined to the north-end of the said plank. This plank sfhould be made of very soft wood so's it can he efcsily straddled. farm RELtElS PLANK By all means, see that this plank ia a very short one; something Hke a 1 by 3 16 inches long. As it won't be worth anything to the farmers, they can at least bum it in their stoves after the election. Notches can be sut on the edges of this plank to show where the government pegged wheat and corn and cotton at different times during past life of the board. BONUS BLANK... .This should be * maple plank not over 7 feet long, suggest maple because maple is easily bent but hard to break, an<f n can ke leaned one rway during the election years and leaned the other aItcr the elections without iny> should be full bTTcnot holes with trenches dug in both the center and the circumference to illustrate *bat it stands for, that is, if it will s^and at all. One end of this plank might be sawed off to show that part 6 kpnus has been.paid already. Tariff plank White pine wouid be suitable for this plank, as whlt0 P>ne is flexible. It should be rough, full of splinters, crooked, ffreen, worm holey, odoriferous, dis??0red, and very thick. It ought to cut in such shape that it will ?ok like a war-club and then out' ers WM1 know that its purpose is drive off our friends as well as ?ur foes. ECONOMY BLANK. ...Don't fail get a wide, long, smoothly dressed P*nk for this purpose. (Fix it so's names ?f senators and congressn and wires, and their sons daughters and their wires, can printed on same, as they are the to help in this fight. It might *el1 10 *>rint the amount of salary so listed is drawing. The ^ timber to usa for this plank is ^ N?Potiani tree of Bemeo. / ., ft*: ?'-*/*. V-;- .'. trench silos a boon * *? 1'rovide* Inexpensive Way of Saving Silage Foe Dairy Cowa One of the moat practical and workable contributions ever made to farm dairying in South Carolina is the trench silo* which was first introduced by D. <B. Sea.se of Newberry, in 1026, and which has spread rapidly in popularity under the direction of the Clemson College Extension (Service, writes C, G. Cushman, extension dairyman. This type of silo U the very essence of simplicity ami because of its simplicity fits admirably into the scheme of any dairy farmer who could not previously afford the investment in an erect type. The cost of the trench silo is negligible. It can conceivably be built without any cash outlay whatever. In 1031, 72 such silos were built under the direction of the Extension Service and jrecords of construction costs were kept on quite a number of them showing an average cost of 70 cents per ton capacity. Thus a trench silo with a capacity of 30 tons would cost $23,70. These figures allow a liberal charge t6r farm labor and mule labor as well as the cost of a roof. (Several farmers built these silos in 1931 with no cash outlay, using farm labor on idle days and building the roof out of rough boardsr,.or other waste .material around the farm. As one farmer expressed it, "The only obstacle in the way of building a trench silo is making up your mind to have one." Care should bo exercised in selecting a well drained place, preferably where there is a hard clay subsoil, and the natural water table in wet weather will be (below the bottom of the trench constructed. This type si-j lo is usually built, along one" side of1 the barn and the roof is constructed as a shed type, attached to the ^ide of the barn. The adaptability of this silo to the size of herd kept is one of its greatest appeals. As the herd grows, the silo can be dug wider and longer to meet: the feeding requirements. A trench silo six feet wide at the top, four feet wide at the bottom, five feet deep, and 24 feet long, will feed six cows the required amount of silage for 100 days. Twelve cows will require a silo seven feet wide at the top, five feet wide at the bottom, six feet deep and 34 feet long to furnish the required amount of silage for 100 days. Either corn or cane is adaptable to this type of silo. These crops are harvested just as the grain is passing fromx the dough stage and cut into lengths one-half and three-fourths inch in an'ensilage cutter or powerdriven feed cutter and packed well in the trench. When the treram is full, a layer of cut straw is spread over the silage followed by a 10 to 12 inch layer of the earth which has been taken out in digging the silo, and is wet down with water. Feeding may start at any time after two or three weeks. The straw and the dirt are thrown back from a small area near the feeding end and a sloping layer of silage from top to bottom is fed each day, the straw and dirt being thrown back daily as the silage is fed out. Silage fills a place in the winter ration of. the dairy cow which cannot be fiiled by any other product. It is likewise one o? the most economical forms of feed, and now that the trench silo has proven itself prac- j tical, " silage is in reach of everyone who owns cows. It has long been estimated that corn will make about one ton of silage for each five bushels of grain. Corn that will make 30 bushels of corn per acre will make six tons of silage. No other crop will return so much succulent and valuable feed per acre as corn or cane 'in silage forjn. Any fanner who is interested in trench silos can get full directions from his vouiily ttgeui. ur uy wriliu* to* the -Division of Publications at Clemson College and requesting Circular 1'21, "The Trench .Silo." This circular contains complete directions for construction. It also contains directions for building the partial underground type, which is adaptable to the lower section of the state where the water table is too high for the ordinary trench silo or the land is too sandy or not properly drained. ? ICapudinel best for HEADACHE I ( because^ II : l.ga&jyg| i=*?sgjwg*| ' \l . -, -. *1 i -Vr , ^ * * >- u ' Strawberries For Home and Market Citmson College, July 29,?-A yield of 2,000 to 8,000 quarts per acre from strawberries may b? expected by planting desirable varieties and following efficient cultural practices, says E. H; Hawl, extension horticulturist, who considers the strawberry one of our most important small fruits nnd who advises that every home garden should have several rows and that market gardeners near larger towns should grow strawberries for local market. . "Strawberries will succeed on a variety of soils and may be grown on any soil adapted to ordinary crops ifjthe soil has plenty of organic matter and heavy applications of .fertilizers," Mr. Rawl states. "In general the medium or lighter soils are preferred. Light soils tend to hasten the maturity of the fruit, but are most subject to drought. A good strawberry soil should be fertile and well drained but highly retentive of moisture. "Lands to be planted to strawberries next winter should have preparation under way now. Plow the land deeply and disc harrow thoroughly. Let the soil go uncultivated until after a good rain so that weed and grass seed may germinate, then later plow or disc to kill the weeds and grasses before seed are produced. Repeat this operation throughout the summer and the worst hazard in strawberry growing (weeds and grasses) will be materially reduced." The Nicholson Bank and Trust company, at Ui\jon, is reopening with an agreement that depositors draw out only 15 per cent the first year, and 20 per cent in the second, third and fourth years in the future, and all stockholders retain their stock holdings. Construction contracts awarded in the 37 states easU; of the Rocky Mountains July 1st io 15th inclusive, totaled $70,505,000, compared with $57,813,000 for the first half of June, according to the F. W. Dodge company of New York. Dave Ryals, 30, her brother-in-law, is hdld responsible for the killing of Miss Genevieve C. Brock, 16, at her hpme near Ferncliffe, Va., Saturday night, and then committing suicide. , An automatic pistol was found lying between the dead bodies. Within 14 hours Friday, Edward J. .MeFadden, 39, former deputy sheriff ' at Pontiac, Mich., confessed to poisoning his wife, pleaded guilty to rpur! der, heard himself sentenced to life Imprisonment and was married to the "other woman" in the county jail. Japanese athletes at Los Angeles, Oal., for the Olympic games, complain that the weather is so cold that they can not do their befet in training for the games, while Swedes and Finns say the climate is entirely too hoL - ??j Paul iSospena, World war veteran of Philadelphia, went suddenly insane Friday and killed his wife, two children nnd 'himself. Worry over months of unemployment is assigned as a cause. -Captain Wolfgang von Gronau of Germany, flying the Atlantic from Berlin with three companions, landed in Iceland Friday /light. This was Von Gronau's third hop across the Atlantic. r? Claude M. Worley, former chief of police of Indianapolis, has beep sentenced to serve six years in Federal prison following his conviction on the charge of evading Federal income taxes. The sentence also carried a fine of $10,000. The commonwealth's attorney at Virginia Beach, Va., has started an active investigation of the charges made by a Virginia Beach newspaper that certain officers and justices of I the peace have been preying on couples in parked automobiles on the1 ocean boulevard charging offenses not j committed and imposing heavy fines with the alternative of publicity in open court. She Reduced 38 Pounds the SafeWay ^ r "I have been taking Kruschen Salts for 4 months and I think they are wonderful. I am 32 years old and 5 ft. 2 in. tall. I was very fat. I weighed 165 lbs. and now I weigh 127 lbs. and feel fine. If I let up taking the Salts one awning I feel lazy and heavy." Mrs. Florence Loftus, Boston. This is just one of hundreds of letters we get every month?Kruschen not only causes you to lose fat but while you are losing it you gain in health?in vivnciousness?you lose fat where fat is most prominent and at the same time keep stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels functioning naturally. DeKalb Pharmacy or any drug store in the world "will sell you a jar of Kruschen for a trifling sum?take one-'ha If tea spoonful in a glass of hot water every morning?go light on fatty meets, potatoes end sweets. But for your health's sake demand and get Kruschen Salts?imitations are nomerus. It's the little daily dose that does^ It., # ;.Vi w' \.yr . ' Murderer Escapes Electric Chair Columbia, July 21.?George Jackson, who was sentenced to die for slaying six of his relatives, will live but his days will be spent behind the high, gray walls of the state penitentiary. Governor Blackwood was expected to sign today the papers that will i commute the 40-year-old Aiken coun-' ty farmer's death sentence to life imprisonment. The governor announced late yesterday he had made this decision despite the fact that on Tuesday 15 of Jackson's relatives had pleaded that he be electrocuted on July 20. "It is true Jackson committed a horrible crime," the governor said, "but I cannot give my consent to permit the execution of a man who was mentally incapacitated to determine right from wrong." l>r. G, Fred Williams, superintendent of the iState Hospital in a report to the governor, said Jackson "has shown definite and positive symptoms of mental disease for the past 15 years." The board of pardons had recommended clemency for him. * Jackson's relatives, in pleading with the governor to allow the death sentence to be carried out, told him through an'attorney that they would feel^'uneas^" if the farmer were allowed to live, subject in yenr to come to executive* clemency. Miss Violet Paxton, 16, is held by the police of Charlotte, N. ., on a charge of Seriously -wounding Mrs. Annie Richardson, 47, because of resentment of the alleged friendship of the Richardson woman for the grandfather, 71, of the Paxton girl. Miss Paxton declared, "I didn't mean to hurt her." She claims that she fired only after the ol^er woman started towards "hot 'to take the gun away from her. , Red Cross investigators at Memphis, Tenn., report there is no basis of fact in the charge recently made, that the distribution of flour there by the Red Cross has been governed by politics under the direction of Congressman Crump. The charge was first made public by Senator Borah. The Florida state prison department, after a two days' investigation, has completely exonerated prison officials for responsibility for tl?? deaths of two convicts in that state in the recent past. One convict was shot while trying to escape and the other diedr suddenly from "acute dilation of the heart," according to the prison physician. Led by George Vanderbilt of New York, a large party of scientists and photographers left Miami, Fla., by boat on 'Sunday to take pictures of scientific and native (methods of catching1 large game (fish in the tropic waters of the West Indies. The salvage ship tSalvor and two trawlers are off the coast of Virginia for an effort to find the Ward liner Merida, sunk in 1911 with treasure estimated at $4,000,000 to $6,000,000. If the ship is found an attempt to salvage the gold on board will be made. The grand jury at Griffin, Ga., has indicted Captain P, H. Randall, county convict warden* charging involuntary manslaughter, and Douglas Smith, a prison guard, for assault and battery in connection with the death of a convict, who died after being whipped. An Akron, <_)., rubber and tire company, has notified employes that a pay cut of 20 per cent made effective July 1st fwill be restored at once, with the back pay being spread out during the last six months of the year. - LOOKING BACKWARD Tmkoa From (h? Filet of The Cturenlde Fifteen iM Thirty Yeoro Age FIFTEEN YEARS AGO July 28, I?02 Sheriff Trantham captures John Wesley Carter, a recent jail breaker. Ohiei H. L. Watkins borrows hand fire engine from city of Florence to bo used by Camden firo department. W. F. Moseley returns to t^amden after serving in the United States army in the Philippines, W. R. Hough returns from annual outing given to representatives of Equitable life insurance company. The time was spent at Hendersonville, Flat Rock and Aafheville. Mrs. Sarah Player, 82, wife of Columbus Player, died at her home hero. Historical Camden trowel used in laying corner stone of DeK&lb monument; again used at Yorkvill? to lay cornerstone of new graded . school building. Hiram Cook, last pensioner otf War of 1812, dies at Utica, New York, at age of 103. Fast mail train on Southern railway wrecked wihen it runs into open switch near Harbifi, S. iC. President. Roosevelt starts on. his presidential speaking trip covering the New England states. Hillman Paulk, one of the most prominent farmers of Irwin county, found dead in the .woods near Tifton, Ga., with four bullet wounds in his head. Scattering showers and ranging temperatures improving crops in state. ij ?^ Officers and members of the executive committee of -the Kentucky branch of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform have endorsed the action of the national committee in urging its members to support Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. ? THIRTY YKARS AGO ______________ August & Ml? Rev. T. J. Cupstid, iBaptist minister of Blaney, died ut Baptist hospital, William Lloyd, 59, resident , of Wateree mill village, dead. Lee Smith and Miss Frances Trapp, both of this city, married, G. Finest Bateman, for a number of years city police officer, dies after illness. Kershaw county mon leaving Camden to enter officers' training camps a're: Ben W. Gettys, Oarl A. Horton, Joel Hough, Robert M. Kennedy, Jr., William T, Redfeam, Stephen M. Richards, Thomas E. iSalley, Thomaa K. Trotter, York L. Wilson, Edward O. White, Joseph K. del/oach. C. R. Croxton, of Kershaw, married to Miss Lottie Sell Ciyburn, of Westville. - , 'T. Edmund Krumbholz and Henry .Savage visiting Joseph B. Crocker at his summer home at Chatham, Mass. W. T. Baker loses two fingers in shingle mill near Shamrock. G, C. Bruce having a bungalow erected facing Hampton Park, Mr. and Mrs. H, G, Carrison leave for visit to relatives at Newport, Rhode Island. n (y> Dr. W. C. McDowell able to be out nfter suffering injuries in motorcycleauto collision. Max Sears, bookkeeper at Schlosburg's store, leaves to make his home in Charleston. S. W. Hoguo goes with Rhamo , Brothers as salesman. Home of Frank Williams in Bethel, section of Lancaster county near Kershaw destroyed by fire. Dr. Walter Sorrell and F. M. Wooten go to cattle raising section of North Carolina and Tennessee to beef ctfttle for Consolidated Farms Company. ^ YOU'VE TRIED AIRPLARING or ^ HYDROPLANING or AQUAPLANING . ? NOW TRY Terraplaning newest physical sensation in motoring?w power set frec'VsuAYf six-cylindered pneumounted power an engineering triumph that'll he on the drawing boards of the industry for months yet, but is offered you now at a price that's actually down among and UNDER the former lowest-priced Three, in the new ? TERRAPLANE ----What a Car! - and the loweeU f priced Six In Amerlcal ood up, #. . b. D*fr?ft Be a modern. 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